Engineering student ends life by jumping into Tapi River

Surat: A 17-year-old engineering student's body was taken out of river Tapi near Utran railway bridge here on Tuesday. The deceased is suspected to have committed suicide on Monday by jumping into the river from the bridge.

Body of Darshan Umariya, a resident of Althan, was spotted by a labourer. A case of accidental death was registered by police after post mortem on the body. Umariya was studying in first year engineering in a college in Valsad and had come home during the vacation.

He informed his parents that he was going to their old house in Katargam and left on a scooter on Monday afternoon. He parked the scooter near Ashwini Kumar crematorium and went to the bridge and jumped into river. Fire brigade was alerted about a person having jumped into the river, but they could not find the body. Police are trying to find out the exact reason why Umariya had jumped into the river. The boy's father Jayraj repairs air conditioners for a living.